Jim Spencer

Female criminals usually see themselves as ''traditional women,'' oriented toward the roles of wife and mother, says sociologist Frances Heidensohn. They don`t consider themselves to be liberated, nor do they...

In any 10-year period, a third of Americans will see their standard of living drop by 50 percent or more, and a fourth will live in poverty for at least...

Extramarital affairs may strain relationships between husbands and wives, but they don`t necessarily lead to divorce, according to an informal national survey by the makers of the adult game Scruples....

Of Seymour Kleinman had his way, guys like Michael Jordan would receive college degrees in something called ''athletic arts.'' ''Sports,'' Ohio State University physical education professor Seymour Kleinman argues, ''has...

When a health club charges $6,000 a year for a membership, it had better do something to distinguish itself. That`s what the management at Los Colinas Sports Club in Irving,...

Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep takes its name from the movement of eyes under closed lids, but there are other kinds of physical agitation associated with this very active form of ''rest,''...

Parents are naive about their teenage children`s experience with drugs and alcohol, a study by an Emory University psychologist shows. Wade Silverman, a professor in the psychiatry department of Emory`s...

Many more parents believe television is bad for their children than believe it is good, according to a recent survey commissioned by Parents magazine. Forty percent of the parents surveyed...

The first time Libby Matlin went to see ''Children of a Lesser God,'' she almost got sick. Sitting in the Old Orchard Theatre in Skokie waiting for the movie to...

No simple list of personality traits or traumas can explain why one person would take another`s life, but all of the convicted murderers who were the subject of a recent...